Privacy Policy

The Atlanta Israel Coalition (“AIC,” “we,” “us”) respects your privacy. We collect only what we need to run our programs and stay in touch with the community, and we do not sell your personal information.

What we collect

We collect information you choose to give us, and a small amount of technical information the site needs to work:

• Newsletter sign-ups. When you subscribe, we collect the name and email address you enter.
• Contact form. When you write to us, we collect your name, email address, and the message and topic you send.
• Donations. When you give, our payment provider collects the details needed to process your gift. AIC receives a record of the donation (such as amount and donor name) but does not store your full card number on this site.
• Memberships and partnerships. When you join, or join as a partner, we collect the details listed under “Memberships” below.
• Event registrations. When you register for an event, you do it on this site. We keep your name, your email address, and the event and ticket you chose. If the ticket costs money, you pay through Stripe. When we put on an event together with other organizations, and the event page lists them, we share the names and email addresses of the people registered for that event with them, so they know who’s coming. They get that event’s list and nothing else from us. A speaker is not a co-host. When an event has a speaker, the registration form has an optional box, unticked, that asks whether you want us to share your name and email address with that speaker so they can stay in touch with you. We share them only if you tick it, only with that event’s speaker or speakers, and only for that event. If you change your mind, ask us before we pass them on and we’ll leave your details out.
• Technical information. Like most websites, our host may log standard technical data such as browser type and general location, used to keep the site secure and reliable.

How we use it

We use the information you share to:

• send the AIC Dispatch, our newsletter, and program updates (see “Forms and the AIC Dispatch” below);
• respond to your message or inquiry;
• process and acknowledge your donation or membership, and meet our recordkeeping and tax obligations as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit;
• run your membership, including your Mitzpe Institute membership and any event admissions it includes;
• invite you to events, missions, and volunteer opportunities; and
• keep the site secure and improve how it works.

We do not sell or rent your personal information. We share your name and email address with an event’s co-hosting organizations, as described under “Event registrations,” and with an event’s speaker or speakers only if you tick the box for that when you register, only for that event, and you can ask us to withdraw it before we pass your details on. The AIC newsletter list is never merged with any other organization’s list.

Forms and the AIC Dispatch

Added October 7, 2026.

When you register for an event or send us any form on this site, we add your email address to the AIC Dispatch, our newsletter. We send it through Substack. That covers event registration, the contact form, volunteer and partner applications, sharing your story, incident reports, and our feedback forms.

Every one of those forms has a box that reads “Send me the AIC Dispatch, AIC’s newsletter.” It comes already ticked. If you don’t want the Dispatch, untick it before you send the form. Your registration or message goes through the same way whether the box is ticked or not.

If you leave it ticked, we keep the date and the exact wording you saw, and we add you to the Dispatch. If you untick it, we don’t add you. On the feedback and incident-report forms your email is optional, and if you leave it out there is nothing to add.

Giving, joining as a member, or paying for a partnership happens on Stripe’s checkout page, and Stripe shows its own box asking whether you want email from us. For a gift, we add you only if you tick that box. Members are added to the Dispatch when they join, because it’s the members’ newsletter.

To unsubscribe, use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any Dispatch email, or write to Shalom@atlantaisrael.org and we’ll take you off. Leaving the Dispatch doesn’t cancel an event registration, a membership, or anything else you signed up for.

Service providers

AIC uses trusted third-party services to run parts of the site and its programs, and shares information with them only as needed to provide those services:

• Substack, to manage and send the AIC Dispatch newsletter;
• Stripe, to process donations, memberships, partnership payments, and paid event tickets securely (AIC never stores your card details);
• YouTube (Google), to show embedded event recordings and videos (see “Cookies and analytics” below); and
• Cloudflare, to host the site, to send transactional email (confirmations, contact replies, donation receipts), and, where enabled, a privacy-respecting analytics provider.

Each provider handles your information under its own privacy terms.

Memberships

When you join AIC as a member, here is what we keep and where it goes:

• Your membership record. Your email address, your name, your level, whether you pay monthly or yearly, and how long your membership runs. We keep this in our own database.
• Your payments. Stripe processes every payment and holds your card details. We get back a record of each payment (the amount, the date, and your name and email address) so we can send your receipt and keep the tax records the law requires. For a monthly membership, Stripe also tells us each time a payment goes through and when the membership is cancelled.
• Your Mitzpe Institute membership. Every membership includes the Mitzpe Institute, the members’ side of mitzpe.org. So that you can sign in there, we share two things with the Mitzpe Institute’s sign-in system: your email address and the date your membership ends. Nothing else goes with them. No name, no level, no amount. When you sign in at mitzpe.org, the Mitzpe Institute keeps your email address as a reader account.
• Event admissions. If your level includes event admissions, we keep a record of the ones you’ve used, so we can count them against your yearly allowance.

Partners and sponsors. When your organization applies as a partner, or a business signs up as a sponsor, we keep what you send: the organization’s name, one contact’s name, email address and phone number, your website, the line you’d like us to show about you, and whether we may show your name and logo. For a sponsorship, Stripe holds your card, and we keep a record of each payment. The people who claim an AIC membership with your member code are recorded the same way an individual member is.

Internal CRM

We maintain an internal contact record so that our outreach stays organized and we do not duplicate messages. It holds your name, email address, and a history of your interactions with us (donations, memberships, event registrations, newsletter status, messages you send us). This record is accessible only to authorized AIC staff and board members. We do not share it with third parties except through the service providers listed above, and the registration list for an event with the organizations putting it on with us (see “Event registrations” above). If you tick the box to share with an event’s speaker when you register, we also pass your name and email address to that speaker. We never sell or rent it.

Cookies and analytics

We use only the cookies the site needs to function, plus a small set of analytics cookies that measure aggregate site use, and only after you accept them.

Google Analytics 4. We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand how visitors find and use our site. GA4 is configured with:

• IP address anonymization enabled (Google truncates the last octet before storage);
• Google Consent Mode v2, with analytics denied by default until you accept;
• no Google Signals or advertising features enabled;
• no cross-site tracking;
• data retention set to 14 months.

When granted, GA4 sets cookies named _ga and _ga_<container-id>. To opt out of GA4 tracking, you can decline analytics in our cookie banner (your choice is remembered on this device), or install the Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on. Google’s use of the data GA4 collects is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy.

Essential cookies. These are set by our infrastructure (Cloudflare) and by our checkout provider (Stripe) when you give, join, or buy a ticket. They are required for those functions to work and are not used for tracking.

Cookie consent. The cookie banner shown on your first visit lets you accept or decline non-essential (analytics) cookies. Your choice is stored on your device so we do not ask again. You can change your choice at any time by clearing this site’s cookies and localStorage.

Do Not Track. Our site does not respond differently to browser “Do Not Track” signals; we do not run any advertising trackers regardless.

YouTube embeds. Some pages show embedded videos from YouTube. These load as a still preview by default. Only after you click play do they start and load YouTube’s player, which may set its own cookies. If you do not play a video, no YouTube cookies are set. YouTube’s use of any data it then collects is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy.

Your choices

• Unsubscribe. Every newsletter email includes an unsubscribe link; you can opt out anytime. On any form, untick the AIC Dispatch box and we won’t add you (see “Forms and the AIC Dispatch”).
• Access or deletion. You can ask us what personal information we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it, by emailing the address below. We will respond within a reasonable timeframe.
• Do Not Track. The site does not respond differently to browser “Do Not Track” signals; it simply does not run advertising trackers.

Data retention

We keep personal information only as long as we need it for the purposes above or to meet legal and recordkeeping obligations, then delete or anonymize it. Typical periods:

• Newsletter subscribers: until you unsubscribe, plus 12 months of archived history for delivery diagnostics.
• Donation records: 7 years (IRS record-keeping obligation for tax-exempt organizations).
• Membership and partnership payments: 7 years, the same as donation records.
• Contact-form and inquiry messages: 3 years.
• Volunteer and event records: 3 years after your last engagement.
• Website analytics: aggregated pageview data retained for 14 months (Google Analytics 4 default), and thereafter only in aggregate/anonymized form.
• Cookies: each cookie expires as set by the specific cookie (session, 30 days, or 12 months for preference cookies).

Visitors in the EU, EEA, UK, or Switzerland

If you access our site from the EU, EEA, UK, or Switzerland, you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and UK GDPR:

• Access: you can ask what personal data we hold about you.
• Rectification: you can ask us to correct inaccurate data.
• Erasure: you can ask us to delete your data, subject to our legal retention obligations (see “Data retention” above).
• Restriction: you can ask us to limit how we use your data.
• Objection: you can object to processing based on our legitimate interests, including direct marketing (you can also opt out of direct marketing at any time via the unsubscribe link in every email).
• Portability: for data you provided us that we process automatically, you can request a machine-readable copy.
• Complaint: you have the right to lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). In each EU/EEA country, it is the national data protection authority.

Our lawful bases for processing your data:

• Consent: for newsletter signup, including the AIC Dispatch box on our forms, and, where applicable, non-essential cookies. You can withdraw consent at any time.
• Contract: for processing donations, memberships, and services you request from us (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR).
• Legal obligation: for records we must keep for tax, accounting, or law-enforcement compliance (Article 6(1)(c)).
• Legitimate interests: for site security, fraud prevention, keeping our internal CRM organized, and responding to inquiries you initiate (Article 6(1)(f)). You can object to processing on this basis.

International transfers. We are based in the United States. When you give us personal data, it is transferred to and processed in the US. Our US-based service providers (Stripe, Substack, Cloudflare, Google) have executed Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission, or rely on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, as their transfer mechanism.

To exercise any of these rights, email Shalom@atlantaisrael.org. We respond within 30 days.

California residents

The Atlanta Israel Coalition is a nonprofit, and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) does not generally apply to nonprofits. Even so, we voluntarily extend California residents the following rights:

• Right to know what personal information we collect, from what sources, for what purposes, and with whom we share it. This entire policy is designed to give you that information; ask us if anything is unclear.
• Right to delete the personal information we hold about you, subject to our legal retention obligations.
• Right to correct inaccurate personal information.
• Right to opt out of sale. We do not sell your personal information, so there is nothing to opt out of.
• Right to non-discrimination. Exercising any of these rights will not affect the service you receive from us.

To exercise any of these rights, email Shalom@atlantaisrael.org.

Children

The site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it.

For users in the EU, EEA, or UK, we require verifiable parental consent for children under 16 (or the applicable local age of consent, whichever is lower).

Changes

We may update this policy as our programs or the law change. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above, and significant changes will be noted on this page.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about the information we hold, can go to Shalom@atlantaisrael.org, or by mail to Atlanta Israel Coalition, Inc., P.O. Box 3902, Alpharetta, GA 30023.